Readit NewsIf, let's say, a typical $30k car means a large EV SUV with all the luxury gadgets and conveniences, plus fridge, massage chair, full camping setup, etc. Would 30k car buyers not expect those things?
And a huge % of the foreign students are Asian as well.
College admissions are not a single-metric first-past-the-post process like time to run a marathon or votes won in an election.
Hard to argue whatever balance of quantitative/qualitative inputs they are using actually harms Asian admissions.
Is that the reality? or is it middle class and less advantaged white/asian kids giving way to middle class black/hispanic ones? Or worse, is it simply raising the bar for asians because there are too many of them in higher education like they did to jews?
When I visited SF for the first time in 2019, it felt really weird that such a rich place would have so many people living in tents in public spaces. Being naive, I saw dozens of tents in Sue Bierman Park and thought they were having an event or something. Then it dawned on me what I was seeing and it never made sense because certainly it doesn't take a lot of money to give these people something so they don't have to live in tents.
Where I live (South America), the city had this situation about 20 years ago and what they did was buy a bunch of cheap land in the outskirts, build small houses and relocate these people. To avoid it being called charity, they "lent" the money that these people could pay in >50 years without interest. And this is a place with no tradition of philantrophy or billionaries. So I'd imagine a single billionarie could fix SF's situation in a blink of an eye, no?
If you enjoy software engineering and are willing to take a job in some place that's not SV, NYC, Austin, Seattle, etc. you can still find jobs that will allow an above-average salary and comfortable living. It's just not going to be at FAANG or Evil Omnicorp LLC.
If large landlords (like the company that bragged about owning 80,000 units) are colluding amongst themselves, then won't property owners not directly colluding also raise prices?
How do you provide relief to all those renters?
I agree with that statement, but one must admit there's some hypocrisy on the part of China, given they have blanket bans on YouTube and Instagram which provide their own competing offerings. If China lifted those bans there could be no claims about TikTok enabling some asymmetric advantage in espionage or propaganda, and if they don't, China can't claim the US is doing anything they aren't already.
A good example is that google is banned but bing is not, and tiktok is also banned in China because they don't follow those laws.
Doesn't take a huge leap to think it could be intentional..
[1] https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...
So your argument is centrally controlled and edited distribution of news information is superior?
I was born in 82, and news has been largely rubbish in almost all forms. Heavily biased by the editors/owners, things missing, weird focuses. The 1940s was filled with propaganda and newspapers were owned by a few moguls or by fascist governments.
At least with the uncensored internet it's possible to educate yourself. There is plenty of amazing journalism if you look around. Including on Tik Tok!
The fact that people believe in journalistic integrity shows how successful they are at brainwashing the public.